Rob Nilsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rob Nilsson

American film director

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1939

Place of Birth: Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, poet, author, journalist, film director, film producer, film editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Rob Nilsson

  • Rob Nilsson is a filmmaker, poet, and painter, best known for his feature film Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson and winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1979).
  • He also is known for directing and playing the lead role in Heat and Sunlight, produced by Steve and Hildy Burns, also featuring Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema and Ernie Fosseliius.
  • Heat and Sunlight won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988, and his 9 @ Night Film Cycle won the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in Cinema.
  • Nilsson has also received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Fargo International Film Festival, the St.
  • Louis International Film Festival, the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee, the Master's Award from the Golden Apricot Film Festival, a Filmmaker of the Year Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival, and the Milley Award from the city of Mill Valley for accomplishment in the Arts. The 9 @ Night Film Cycle is a cinematic epic of nine feature films about 40-50 fictional characters living on the rough edges of American society.
  • Consisting of fourteen and a half hours of film shot over the course of fourteen years, all films were produced with members of the Tenderloin Action Group (1992–97), and the Tenderloin yGroup, (1998-2009).
  • Each film takes a unique aesthetic approach to its subject, and all nine films depict a world of the homeless, recently homeless, and inner city residents, played by workshop members, local actors and established talents such as Robert Viharo and Ron Perlman.
  • This melting-pot of interlocking feature films was shot in diverse locations: Tenderloin hotels and alleys, East Bay homeless encampments, and hobo jungles in the Nevada desert.
  • What Mad Pursuit (2013) a feature documentary directed by Denny Dey, is an analysis of the 9 @ Night films, showing how they weave together to form one master work. Nilsson is also a painter and a poet whose book of poetry From a Refugee of Tristan Da Cunha is a collection of his life's work.
  • In 2013, he published Wild Surmise: A Dissident View, featuring his ideas and experiences in the world of art and cinema.
  • A currently in-progress documentary directed by Michael Edo Keane follows Nilsson's career and will document the making of his new film, Love Twice, a love story set in the Caribbean.

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